Playlist

Preface

"Anyone setting forth to hunt the snark, until the very conclusion of the voyage, believes he will succeed."
Robert Peters "Hunting the Snark : a compendium of new poetic terminology"

Texts

Recorded

January 26, 2020
Sonata in C minor, K. 73 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

long complex phrases

wherein the balance is complicated by internal repetition

if the whole thing balances
liberties may be taken
in close quarters

multi-movement! unusual for DS

without trying much to hold them together
in any way
more obvious than charm

Sally Ann - W. Guy Bruce, Guy Bruce, Jr. [from The Art of Field Recording, Volume 1]

blood rhythm
a micro tribal thing

Banned Telepath 8 Seattle - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [December 1986]

detail of an image made by Anne Gorrick

You're in charge of making sound
pots pans
bowls and possibly cans
for the rhyme

are banged on
sherry is served

kitchen sink
(weren't Neal&Anna also doing dishes?)

now there are two
the time being can have company

likewise with the harp
a picture of Betty Crocker

that was the salad bowl
funeral for a salad set

far beyond the ken of man
we are quite noisy about it too

the kittens didn't get up on the table today
and take any tea bags

:: in session we were washing dishes and I broke a glass salad bowl that had been a wedding present. I had forgotten that the episode had been recorded, but while listening back became increasingly uneasy, the sounds of dishes banging around being quite lively and rough, about the possibility that something might get broken, though confident that nothing had. Oops.

Cookies - Eisenbreys, Guantts, and Kosály-Meyers [December 2006]

back in the kitchen
but in the next house along
in a family conversation matrix

couples function as a repetition unit
as a repetition as accentuation unit
we each repeat our co-copulator's phrases
to accent them

I thought my tastebuds would change. (a complaint)
a cauldron of mentation

I confess to Karen midrecording that I am recording
layering polyphonicals

Daddy what's that noise?
O that's music.

Aunt Karen shows how to cut gingerbread men out.
clatter of cousins, nattering nabobs of nieces

krumkake tannenbaum oops
AKU provides creepy background music

microphone
confessional

:: all the various cousins from the Meyer side were gathered in our house just before Christmas 2006. There was cookie making and multiple conversations layed out in front of the microphone. My old synthesizer piece, AKU, provides a horror suspense vibe to the proceedings. From the perspective of lovely layered sound I'm sorry I can't share this publicly. Too many minors.

will we ever make it to the ocean? - Koko and the Sweetmeats [from Sacrifice]



overdramatic
overdramatization
of a longish car ride
like The Odyssey

longly
lingering
lingerly effects

Corollaries - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey

in which
that tempo is right, correct
at which
the piece finds itself
in allowing it

key to market fluctuation
and other false cyclics

January 28, 2020
Sonata in A Major, K. 74 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

register, the up down of pitch of it
is crucial
where it hangs
on the keyboard

put up high
until it unspools
to join the pond frogs

Shady Grove - W. Guy Bruce [from The Art of Field Recording, Volume 1]

tuned in Shady Grove key
banjer

not the Shout, Lulu key
I pick a lot of open strings

Two Hearts - Bruce Springsteen [from Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band Live 1975-1985]

all hook
no fish

This Town - Whiting Tennis [from Three Leaf Clover]



drifting glance at the lodged
unmoored

at the moored
dislodged

Prelude in C-sharp minor -Keith Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey

some wrong notes
but some right tones

:: this was performed as a prayer response during a Sunday morning service at Langley United Methodist Church in August 2015

Hope the Gender Variant Chicken - Bicycle Face [from The Wonders of Female Strength]



I suppose it is
in the Hope the Gender Variant Chicken key

In Session at the Tintinabulary

January 27, 2020
Banned Rehearsal 998 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer



tonight at 8 (as I write this) we look forward to performing Banned Rehearsals 999 and 1000 at Gallery 1412. Golly, has it been so long since number 1, way back in June of 1984?

Number 100 was in June of 1986;
Number 200 would have been in December of 1989, but does not exist as a whole (long story involving a never-made telepath part);
Number 300 was in August of 1992;
Number 400 was in September of 1995;
Number 500 was in June of 1998;
Number 600 was in February of 2001;
Number 700 was in April of 2006;
Number 800 was in October of 2011;
Number 900 was in December of 2015.

Postscripts

on sion's one's votaries oh thunders

finger scorch'd the stone garb glance appear shiver'd

by a long twist at the back of 31

through matrix

trace result

sand paper